Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s the finding from researchers at Concordia University in ...

According to a series of tests, a number of password security meters fail to identify passwords that are susceptible to cracking.

If you’ve ever made an online account, then you’ve come across a password strength meter—that little thing that encourages you to add a little more complexity to your credentials. And, if ...

Research on password strength testers concludes that for important accounts, strength meters force users to create strong passwords; not so for unimportant.

Password strength meters that offer web surfers a visual gauge of how weak or strong a chosen lock may be are increasingly present on websites – but how effective are they at getting folks to choose ...

New research exposes the weakness of password strength meters, and shows consumers should remain skeptical when the bar turns green in order to create strong passwords.

The password meters presented to the test subjects used "zero-order entropy," a technique many meters use to measure password strength.

But how do you know if your password is strong enough? Head to The Password Meter, a free service that rates the strength of your password based on a number of criteria.